Carpenter Box is amongst the businesses sponsoring The Floating Fish Beer and Music Festival at the Marquis of Granby in Sompting this weekend.  In particular we’re sponsoring ‘Sussex Gold’ one of the many beers to be found at the festival.  

Of course, it’s all for a good cause – The Worthing and Adur fund which is a community fund set up by the Worthing Chamber of Commerce with the help of the Sussex Community Foundation.  The fund aims to support small local charities across, you’ve guessed it, Worthing and Adur!  In fact Carpenter Box was the first Corporate Donor to the fund so as you can see, we’re quite fond of the idea of supporting our community. The Beer and Music Festival promises to be a great event with all sorts of entertainment of the alcoholic and musical kind.  With over 20 real ales and ciders + a BBQ, comedians and music a plenty it’s going to be a great weekend.  The festival runs from noon to 11pm on Saturday 4th September and Sunday 5th September.  For more details follow this link.

Carpenter Box trainee accountant Sam Haworth is just about to set out on the 2010 Hospice Road Trip in aid of the Build a Dream foundation at St Barnabas. 

There are 16 teams taking part, each team consisting of 2 people.  They have had to buy a car at least 10 years old and drive across Europe to Nurburgring in Germany and back in a week, hoping that their old bangers will make it without too many breakdowns on the way! 

In the past 2 years the Roadtrip has raised over £20,000 for St Barnabas and the Chestnut Tree hospices, and the 2010 challenge is to raise more money to build and equip the new St Barnabas hospice presently being constructed. 

Sam has had to raise a minimum of £2,000 and has been looking for sponsors to donate any amount of money, however small, to this great cause.   The new roadtrip has already managed to raise over £13,000 which is a fantastic achievement.  Carpenter Box have sponsored Sam’s car so our ‘red moon’ logo will be making its way across Europe over the bank holiday weekend.

There is a website with further details of the roadtrip at http://www.hospiceroadtrip.co.uk/, so take a look and keep up with their progress.

The Business exhibition went well – Lucy Tunstall and I met lots of old friends and made some new ones too.  It was the beginning of the 2010 exhibition season and a good one at that. 

The Finish Line!

Sunday was the Brighton Marathon and our very own Stuart Noakes was battling his way around the course.   Stu has the day off to recover but we’re looking forward to hearing his story tomorrow.   What we do know is that he has had over £1600 pledged the Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation to be given to the National Autistic Society, so well done Stu!

Jelly Beans?  What’s that all about?  Well…. Yesterday evening (Thursday 25th March) Carpenter Box’s Chris Coopey presented a quiz to members of the Chichester Chamber of Commerce and Industry in aid of the Lifecentre (a fantastic charity supporting people who have suffered sexual abuse – see more at http://www.lifecentre.uk.com/).  The quiz raised hundreds of pounds for the charity and everyone seemed to have a really good time.  And the Jelly beans?  That will have been round 3 – the least popular flavour was earwax!

Marathon Man - Stuart Noakes!

Sometimes you just have to admire someone’s grit and determination….  Carpenter Box’s very own Stuart Noakes is a good example.  Stu is running the first ever Brighton Marathon on 18th April and is training like nobody’s business.  Thumping up and down the sea front at Brighton and Hove, here there and everywhere.  He’s looking for sponsors to raise money to support the National Autistic Society through the Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation. 

Help Stu reach his target by giving a little now at http://www.justgiving.com/CBCF